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	The Mummy (1959 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Mummy is a 1959 British Hammer Horror film starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing.
		Often assumed to be a remake of the 1932 film The Mummy, which starred Boris Karloff, the film actually derives its plot and characters entirely from two later, 1940s, Universal Studios b-movies: The Mummy's Hand and The Mummy's Tomb.
		The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1964)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Mummy_(1959_movie) (724 words)

	The Mummy (1959) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It's a movie that has its moments, which helps to make sure that this movie is an above average one and because of that an also perfectly watchable one.
		Basically this is the main plot line of this movie is the mummy and Mehemet Bey taking revenge on those who opened the grave of the mummy's 4000 year old lover Princess Ananka.
		The character of Isobel Banning is completely underused in the movie and they could had used her character to make the movie more interesting and provide it with some more depth, with her relation between John Banning and the mummy.
	imdb.com /rg/title-lhs/title-prev/title/tt0053085 (759 words)

	Teleport City
		The Mummy's Shroud's problems are several, and not the least of them is the fact that it fulfills what seems to be the mummy's curse demanding that all mummy movies be more or less exactly like all other mummy movies.
		The plot is a rehash of the tried and true and terribly over-used mummy movie plot involving an expedition that disturbs a mummy's tomb only to have some mad Arab resurrect the mummy and send it out to kill those who desecrated the temple.
		In the 1959 film, there was at least an attempt to give the Arab class and sophistication and intelligence, not to mention a compelling argument against the desecration of tombs by foreign archaeologists who were frequently condescending to "the natives," treating their tombs as classrooms in ways they would never treat the tombs of whites.
	www.teleport-city.com /movies/dvdjournal/2004/08/mummys-shroud.html (1462 words)

	The UnMuseum - Mummy in Entertainment
		At first only the mummy's owners and a few friends were present at these gatherings, but then larger groups viewed the unrollings.
		Blumenbach found that many of the mummies that had been sent back to Europe were fakes sold to travelers by unscrupulous antiques dealers in Egypt.
		Mummy films started appearing almost as soon as the motion picture camera was invented.
	www.unmuseum.org /mumwrap.htm (888 words)

	TheMummy59
		The 1959 Hammer version of The Mummy is one of the better of the many mummy films available.
		John, who hadn't seen another mummy or a scroll, gently reminds his father of this, and sadly leaves, believing his father still to be unsound of mind.
		As I mentioned earlier, this mummy movie is very good, and has remained extremely watch-able and entertaining, even now, well over 40 years later.
	solitaryphoenix.com /TheMummy59.html (678 words)

	THE MUMMY (1959)
		Later, when Universal dusted off its cask of Tana leaves to revive the character in the 1940s, the Mummy became the bandage-swathed revenant most people are familiar with.
		Kharis the mummy will soon come to kill him; John and Joseph are also marked for death for violating Ananka's secret resting place.
		Smashing through doors to barrel at his prey like an unstoppable juggernaut, this was a physically demanding role that resulted in a number of injuries to the actor during filming.
	www.eccentric-cinema.com /cult_movies/mummy59.htm (839 words)

	The Mummy
		I grew up with the 1959 version of the story, and like most of the old time monster movies, this was my first viewing of the film.
		The Mummy is perhaps the scariest of the original Universal monster movies and even it is a laugh-fest in front of the right crowd.
		The Mummy was a beast created not by the fevered mind of a novelist, but by actual discoveries.
	www.xmission.com /~tyranist/horror/reviews/m/Mummy.1932.html (528 words)

	THE CINEMA LASER DVD REVIEW-- THE MUMMY
		The plot of THE MUMMY centers on the aftermath of an ill-fated expedition to find the tomb of Princess Anaka, who was High Priestess to the Egyptian god Karnak.
		While there are certain similarities to Universal mummy movies that preceded it, Hammer’s version of THE MUMMY is an original and truly superior horror movie.
		It is the film’s strange "love story" that causes the mummy of Kharis to turn against his master, when he encounters the reincarnation of Anaka (Yvonne Furneaux) in the Banning household.
	www.thecinemalaser.com /dvd2/reviews/mummy-1959-dvd.htm (1036 words)

	Salon Arts & Entertainment \| All dressed up and no place to go (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This was never completely fair; Karl Freund's original 1932 "The Mummy" (Boris Karloff's only turn in the gauze-wrapped role) is one of the most suspenseful and atmospheric horror movies of the period, and the Hammer Films 1959 remake starring Christopher Lee is also luridly effective.
		Mummy-fanciers (if there are any of you), be warned: Stephen Sommers' "The Mummy" borrows almost nothing from the great, neglected, dude-looks-like-a-burn-victim tradition except its title and a cheesola opening sequence that represents ancient Egypt as an enormous Vegas hotel, complete with showgirls in fishnet jumpsuits and gold lamé body paint.
		Actually, the opening scenes of "The Mummy" are far more enjoyable than the rest of the movie, what with the Hefneresque display of ancient Theban babeage, a bunch of rebellious priests being mummified alive and "Egyptian" dialogue subtitled in a lovely serif font.
	dir.salon.com /story/ent/movies/review/1999/05/07/mummy (953 words)

	Classic-Horror Review of The Mummy (1932)
		To have to review this movie with a cast and crew this good is preposterous, but Nate told me I better or I’ll only be reviewing episodes of "Alf" (oh, the horror!).
		While the original Mummy film (starring the unsurpassable Boris Karloff) was haunting, chilling, and downright creepy, this film adds a little more “oomph” to that concept.
		I believe of all The Mummy films, this movie is the most fright-inducing.
	classic-horror.com /reviews/mummy59.shtml (470 words)

	The Mummy (1959) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Hammer Film Productions’ 1959 The Mummy (not so much a remake of the 1932 film as a composite of all five Universal mummy movies) is everything all those über-famous Universal Studios flicks from the 30’s and 40’s should have been, but mostly weren’t.
		Anankha’s mummy is there, along with her vast fortune in grave-goods, including a hitherto-considered-legendary text called the Scroll of Life, the latter preserved in a cartouche-shaped box inlaid with lapis lazuli.
		Mehmed Akhim instructs the mummy to seek out and destroy those who have desecrated Princess Anankha’s grave, and the next thing we know, the moldy old hulk is smashing his way into Stephen Banning’s hospital cell to strangle him.
	www.1000misspenthours.com /reviews/reviewsh-m/mummy1959.htm (1732 words)

	The Mummy
		The movie is advertised as "This Summer's First Special Effects Event!" and the effects by Industrial Light and Magic are suitably impressive, particularly a sandstorm that pursues the hero and his cohorts in a biplane and that takes on the shape of Imhotep.
		Like the Indiana Jones films, Mummy 2 follows the conventions of the cliffhanger but those conventions go back to the beginnings of commercial movie production and beyond there to the popular culture--dime novels and melodramas--late nineteenth century popular culture.
		But this is hardly the end of Mummy 2's genre questions, since the older action-adventure genre has been inflected by some distinctly recent innovations in the American cinema.
	www.angelfire.com /movies/davesothermovielog/mummy_a.htm (1588 words)

	: RevolutionSF - The Mummy : Review
		Those who watch The Mummy are likely to end up divided into two camps: 1) people who like it because it is a quick, shallow, juvenile and quite goofy homage to the adventure serials of the 30s, and 2) people who dislike it for those same reasons.
		No, The Mummy is not the second coming of Indiana Jones, but it's something to snack on so you don't starve to death waiting for that fourth Indy flick.
		Mummy and the Curse of the Jackals, The (1969)
	www.revolutionsf.com /article.html?id=110 (996 words)

	Review of The Mummy (1999)
		The Mummy has been cursed because, back when he was alive 3,000 years before, he fell in love with the wrong woman.
		For punishment, he was wrapped up as a mummy while still alive and sealed in a sarcophagus, the dead body of his love in an inaccessible chamber next door.
		Another bad thing about the 1959 version was that the Mummy was essentially a robotic golem, controlled by an evil Egyptian who wanted to get even with the archaeologists who had desecrated the tomb.
	www.frankwu.com /mummy.html (3678 words)

	Scifilm -- Reviews, THE MUMMY (1959)
		The plot imitates THE MUMMY (1932) in several respects: the use of "The Scroll of Life" to bring back the dead, the Mummy's fascination with a modern woman who has the likeness of his beloved, and the opening scenes in particular.
		As the Mummy Kharis, he is truly threatening—towing over the other actors and moving in a way that conveys both enormous strength and great age.
		THE MUMMY (1959) is a must-see for any fan of Mummy movies or Hammer horror films.
	www.scifilm.org /reviews/mummy59.html (1114 words)

	The Mummy
		Some say this is a direct remake of The Mummy's Hand, the sequel to 1932's The Mummy.
		Kharis was actually the name of the mummy in the later Universal films and Ananka was his beloved, Banning was the name of the hero.
		The villains and Kharis, the living mummy, are worshipers of the (invented) pagan god Karnac.
	www.xmission.com /~tyranist/horror/reviews/m/Mummy.1959.html (468 words)

	Movie Death Database Forums :: Movie Reviews :: The Mummy (1959)
		Reading the heiroglyphics on the sarcophagus, which identify the mummy within as "Ananka, Princess of the Two Kingdoms" and the high priestess of Karnak, the archaeologists are overjoyed.
		The hulking, mud-dripping mummy grabs Stephen by the neck and proceeds to choke the archaeologist to death.
		Their plan to deal with the mummy is a little sketchy, but basically John is going to remain in the house while Isobel accompanies Mulrooney out the back, apparently to get her to a safe place.
	www.moviedeaths.com /phorum/read.php?2,1669 (5888 words)

	The Mummy (1959)
		Much as everyone believes otherwise, Mummies were designed to act as the first line of defense against looters and thieves.
		The entire movie kinda derails while we get a half hour production about the death of the temple-priestess-girl and the mummy.
		It's a rare movie that at least doesn't have decent acting if these two are in it for any length of time.
	www.inverteddungeon.com /Movies/mummy1959.php (455 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Mummy at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This is Hammer Studio's take on the mummy mythos, and follows their interpretations of Dracula and Frankenstein.
		Well, this is from 1959, so what may have been shocking then, is tame today.
		Note that although Lee plays the role of the Mummy, he also is featured in a flashback as Kharis - who makes some unfortunate decisions and ends up being mummified.
	www.epinions.com /content_67957001860 (613 words)

	THE FILMS OF JERRY WARREN
		Warren needed a shot of a mountain village for his movie so he sneaked himself and some actors onto the backlot of a movie studio.
		Warren cut out most of Tin Tan's part and turned the movie into a stright horror film about a mummy that is brought to life and turn out to be the mummy of a werewolf.
		This was Warren's re edited version of the movie LA MOMIA AZTECA (THE AZTEC MUMMY) This second mummy creature is killed by a car which was the same ending Warren had used in ATTACK OF THE MAYAN MUMMY.
	www.angelfire.com /ca3/jerrywarren (1299 words)

	Amazon.com: The Mummy: DVD: Peter Cushing,Christopher Lee,Yvonne Furneaux,Eddie Byrne,Felix Aylmer,Raymond ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		"The Mummy" got a big-budget, low-talent remake in the late 90s, which shares a few things with this movie, but the Hammer Horror version is probably the most memorable and well-made.
		Also, its climactic ending is more dramatic: somehow, although the ending of The Mummy had potential as written, it didn't seem to close the story out as effectively as it might have done.
		But Hammer's 1959 version, starring the incomparable team of Peter Cushing (as the hero) and Christopher Lee (as the monster), might be the best treatment of the ancient Egyptian living dead on film, as well as Hammer's best film.
	www.amazon.com /Mummy-Peter-Cushing/dp/B00005NSXY (1923 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Mummy [1959]: DVD: Peter Cushing,Christopher Lee,Yvonne Furneaux,Felix Aylmer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Now a zealot has brought the mummy to England, and is using it to kill off anyone who dared go into the tomb.
		This is one of the best of the Hammer Horror mummy movies which stars Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee in the title role.
		Lee gives one of his best fine screen performances as Kharis the mummy who is trying to revive his lost love the Princess Ananka with the scroll of life.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Mummy-Peter-Cushing/dp/B0002VF5LG (1102 words)

	Movie Info for Tale of the Mummy on MSN Movies
		Best known for his Highlander series, Russell Mulcahy pays homage to the Hammer films of the 1960s with this all-star recreation of the Mummy story.
		The American detective in charge of the affair and the daughter of the archeologist race against time to defeat the malicious mummy.
		At the same time, he has invited the legendary Christopher Lee to appear in the role of the ill-fated archeologist who discovers Talos.
	entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=83713 (232 words)

	Unusual Gifts : Mummy (1959)
		Cushing stars as archeologist John Banning, whose dig for a lost tomb results in untold treasures but leaves his father a mumbling madman and marks the rest of the company for death.
		And they are rarely scarier than they are in "The Mummy," a classic horror movie with no blood, no gore, read full review
		The Mummy has always been the Rodney Dangerfield of classic monsters: it doesn't matter the year or the studio, he just doesn't get any respect.
	www.theunusualgifts.com /mummy-1959_6302814707.html (244 words)

	The Many Mummy Movies Through the Years
		Compare this to the scene early in The Mummy, where Johnathan and Evy bring the map of Hamunaptra to the curator, who is secretly allied with the Med-Jai.
		The mummy this time is Aztec, not Egyptian, and arises on a college campus to do the bidding of his master...the biggest nerd on campus and the worst actor I've seen in a long time!
		Dawn of the Mummy (1981) Dreadful film about a group of fashion models on a photo shoot in Egypt who awaken a bloodthirsty mummy.
	www.sullivanet.com /mummy/movies.htm (407 words)

	The Mummy (1959)
		Foolish British archeologists disturb the tomb of the mummy, reawakening the powerful and deadly creature.
		A devotee to the ancient Egyptian gods brings the mummy to England after the archeologists, where he proceeds to wreak divine vengeance on the men, one after another.
		But when the mummy sees a woman who may be the reincarnation of his long-lost princesses, the plan may have to change.
	movies.go.com /the-mummy/d818339/horror (221 words)

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	Scifilm -- Musings, THE MUMMY (1959)
		One of the problems I have with mummy movies is that most of them have little more to do than to repeat the same storyline line (with slight variations) again and again.
		There are more ways to judge a movie than on plot alone, though, and I think this movie has some definite pluses.
		Lee's mummy isn't really that much faster than that of Universal's mummy, but he doesn't waste a second.
	www.scifilm.org /musings3/musing1724.html (298 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Mummy (Widescreen) (1959): DVD: Terence Fisher,Felix Aylmer,Eddie Byrne,Peter Cushing,Yvonne ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The scenes at the archeological dig and the flashbacks to the ancient burial are stagebound and cheap looking, but Terence Fisher is back in familiar territory when the action relocates to the misty swamps and Victorian mansions of rural England.
		The movie gets an A but this DVD gets B- for Video, B for Audio, C for extras, overall B-, could have been better.
		I adored the concept of the Mummy and I still think this is the best version of the movie ever.
	www.amazon.ca /Mummy-Widescreen-Terence-Fisher/dp/B00005NSXY (1889 words)

	Rate the Hammer Big 3-Part 3: The Mummy - Horrordvds.com Forum
		Lee's mummy is fast as lightning which makes for some terrific action sequences.
		The mummy action is well executed, and some of the attacks are actually scary.
		Curse of the Mummy's Tomb has never been released on video in any form in the U.S. Columbia has not released very many of their large Hammer films library on any home video format.
	www.horrordvds.com /vb3forum/showthread.php?t=3256 (865 words)

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